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Should Valve’s mods be paid?

Valve’s boss Gabe Newell claims that a better modding has to be paid in order to achieve better performance for authors and gamers which been complaint by a number of players.

The controversy of Skyrim has been a chaos that every player has something to say about paid mods where Newell strongly explained that its goal is to increase the investment in community in order to extend its games (Maiberg, 2015). Nevertheless, it is said that Valve is greedy to make them paid for the work which was previously free and those unhappy emails about this subject where it hits to the infrastructure $1 million from the emails (Gilroy,2015). Newell responded to the statement that Valve is being greedy for sell work.

“Let’s assume for a second that we are stupidly greedy. So far the paid mods have generated $10K total. That’s like 1% of the…